The Judiciary is making an ass of itself.
The Diwali Cracker Sales ban in NCR is another folly of the Supreme Court. In a bizarre judgment, the SC ruled that it is banning Sales of Firecrackers, but not the bursting of Firecrackers, to reduce pollution. People got Firecrackers delivered at doorstep, or purchased from outside Delhi and merrily burst it, much to the dismay of the Tughlaq Judges. Post Diwali, neither the SC nor anyone is even interested in raising this issue further. That this was an agenda driven by pseudo secularists, and anti hindu cartel is obvious to all. Unfortunately, Congress has stuffed the SCs and HCs with such pseudo secularists and it will take at least 10 years to purge at least 50% of them. The case of most of the institutions are similar.
The SC doesn't practice what it preaches. While it calls for Transparency and Democracy everywhere in the Country, it shot down the very bill passed by both the Parliament that would have made appointments to Higher Judiciary transparent and democratic. That, it ruled in its favour on a bill where Judiciary itself is the aggrieved party, and where a clear Conflict of Interest existed, is another story.
After doing this, it had the galls to interfere in the affairs of BCCI, and demanded that people with Conflict of Interest should quit! SC had no business to administer BCCI, which is a very private body with its own rules. Having taken the responsibility of running BCCI, it had really made a royal mess of it, and do not have a clue as to what to do. In the bargain, BCCI, which is perhaps the only Sports body that has a working Business Model, and do not depend on Government, and which has done much for the propagation and development of Cricket in the Country, lost its face at ICC level, and had to forego the numero uno position it had in the International Body which was built up over a period of three decades. All SC achieved was to replace a set of corrupt administrators with another corrupt set.
The SC made National Anthem mandatory in all Cinema Halls, and asked Government to implement it. When Government did it in earnest, SC now has come back and said this is not required, and is now pulling up Government for the same act which it mandated, and asked the Government to find a solution to the mess SC created.
SC poking its head into the domain of the Executive is at the cost of Justice to millions. Many important cases are pending decision. The Ayodhya Mandir issue has been pending for a long long time. SC has made a fool of itself in the Sahara Subrata Roy case. Instead of confiscating all his property and auctioning them to recover its dues, it is reduced to pleading him to deposit a few thousand crores, and then extending the deadline again and again. It is yet to give a judgment on the Triple Talaq case, which can have far reaching social effect amongst the Muslim Community. All SC does these days is to scuttle many investigations on some pretext or other, and thrusts its nose into the Executives jurisdiction, especially when it comes to anything involving Hindus, while turning its face away from issues pertaining to Christians, Muslims or National Security.
The latest in the case of Judiciary working against national interest is it entertaining a case on Rohingya Muslims, who are living illegally in India. With Government wanting to deport them, and they are indeed a National Security issue, SC should have never allowed the PIL seeking a stay on their deportation.
The HCs are in a class of its own. Today Madras HC has banned putting up of banners of living people, without citing any reason!
They give Stays at the drop of a hat, and allows culprits to drag the issues till cows come home. The Jallikkatu, Dahi Handi bans are classical examples of judicial over reach.
Unfortunately, the Executive lacks spine and is trying to placate the SC rather than showing it its place. With the majority Modi has in Loksabha and a working majority in Rajya Sabha, with it having its own persons in the Chair, and with people on its side, the Government will never get a better chance than this to put a stop to the Judicial overreach.
SC is being a bully, and all bullies are cowards. All it takes is for someone to just say 'boo' to them. Will Modi do that?
